Guild Wars 2

Ok let me ask some really basic questions:

What’s the average vitality/hp per player? Since gear is “neutral” except for amulet and runes/sigils … are all roughly the same HP?

No food in spvp right? But are there consumables I should be aware of otherwise?

I will do the tutorial, but is spvp similar to the ruins in the home borderland in WvW? You have to stand to cap to win? How many points are there? (Again, apologies, I haven’t set foot inside and likely will discover the answers to this one soon, but didn’t want to zone in and run around like a chicken with my head cut off, would actually like to be an asset to my team).

Gear in spvp is purely decoration correct?

Do rank titles show to opposing forces? Just wondering in case I’m puzzled by why I’m suddenly swarmed with my level 1 rank pvp

Update:

It appears the password “reset” has something to do with Apple’s upgrade to “remember passwords” on your ipad and iphone (not sure about android devices). Once you remove that ability in the ipad’s settings and delete all the saved passwords, manually typing in the username and password for the forum does NOT affect the game login.

So it’s something in apple’s update that saved passwords (when was that? early september) and anet’s code. The two apparently don’t like each other much

Wow fantastic guys! Thank you.

Was browsing the builds and didn’t see anything close to mine (I’m terrible, I covet it like Gollum and his ring) … Will be interesting to see how it translates.

Wow. Fast response!

Thanks so much, I’ll check that stuff out

I’ve been WvWing for about a year now and what I’ve come to enjoy is 1v1s, even 3v1s, but have never stepped foot in spvp. I understand it functions differently than WvW, but where do I even begin? And can I start this up solo, or do I need a buddy?

Any advice would be appreciated. I might dip my toe in while waiting on the WvW queues.

My goal is just to keep improving on my main class, Mesmer, it’s why I duel in WvW.

There was a bad bug for a while

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Not-receiving-Guild-Party-Whisper-messages

But they patched and it fixed it for most of us. I’d suggest putting in a support ticket.

The fact that it works for some and not others makes me believe that it is indeed a block though. Your friend could have done it by accident. Have someone else try to whisper them. If it works for them, then yeah it’s a block.

So are you guys back? Saw Cyril logged in today ….

What server are you on?

If you are facing Piken, be glad to take you out and try a few rounds and give feedback.

Warthog.6870:

What a bad troll – everybody knows flame rams have their own siege cap.

Except they’re really great as a proximity cap sadly.

To the OP, a one-off day of him doing this they can’t really do anything about unfortunately. Take pix, document it and keep it. If he repeats this for several days in a row, take more screen shots/fraps, document it and file a support ticket. Particularly useful is screengrabs of any chat of him saying he’s doing it on purpose — that’s in map or whispers.

People rage like this all the time. Thankfully for most it’s usually just the one day of it.

Can you remove him by removing his ip in account security’s authorized connections?

First change the password to the email associated with your gw2 account, then remove the guys ip from security page. See if that works?

insomniaproject.1348:

the main reason why SFR is so kitten ed is because piken mainly did spawn camp while SFR had fight with Viz and tried to cut of their respawning People, and thats why SFR now try to kick Piken out of the Top 3 of the tournament it isnt already chiseled in Stone that piken make it in the top 3 their are other Servers which might could get that too, because next week piken is against viz, viz will surely make first place that their is absolutly no Chance SFR can also Claim 1# that will make piken most probably lose the next 2 matchups

Actually you have that reversed. It’s even posted by someone on SFR in the first week of the league match if you care to check. Piken was flipping stuff, and Viz was spawn camping you. To each their own, but it’s extremely rare that I ever see anyone from Piken spawn camping — mostly because then there’s nobody to fight But my experience is that players save spawn camping another server only when they’re particularly annoyed with that server.

Maybe that’s the issue here. False information is being spread around?

Also, check your math hon. Even if Piken wins this week, there is no chance we’ll beat Viz next week, and even if we take second in the final match of the leagues, Viz will have first place locked in. The only difference will be whether SFR forum warriors annoy Viz again to motivate them.

Question for you all: Are you assuming you’ve flipped it by killing the frogs/ogres/dredge?

This achievement only works if these merc camps are neutral — meaning you have to go in and claim them for your server. If they are already active for an enemy server, the flip doesn’t count. But flipping the enemy’s control of the camps does make the event respawn sooner.

Wahoo!!!!

I think we finally figured it out.

Anyone complaining of password resetting, do you use a tablet or other device to log into the forums, outside of your main PC?

It appears every time I log into the forums using my iPad, it resets the password. The issue is logging in from a device outside your main gaming PC. Tested it out three times this morning and the following would happen:

+reset password
+ log into forum on PC, works fine
+ log into game with reset password, works fine
+ log into forum with my iPad, password works fine .. until I log out with my iPad. Then password resets/doesn’t work anymore.

It appears the iPad won’t auto log you out either with a new password change, but lets you browse and post freely with the old password, as long as you don’t log out. And it will keep you “on” the forum infinitely until you do log out.

Have updated my ticket with this information/experiment this morning. Not 100% sure if this is the culprit, but it appears to be since I could replicate it three times in a row.

Hope that helps others out there having the same issue. If you are, try logging out of the forums on any other device you are using outside of your gaming pc …. including tablets and phones. Then try again. Your password should remain active as long as you don’t log into any other devices like your phone/tablet. If you do (until they investigate this), you’ll have to go through the same reset password daily thing.

Cheers!

Hehe is he saying "Pickle! Pickle! Pickle! Pickle! " ?!

A Mesmer friend introduced me to this song a while back and it’s on constant loop any time I’m in WvW on my main:

P.S. Is BOOM still on SFR? Pinky Thief owes me a picnic.

I’ll just leave this here:

I just realized that perhaps we need to define/outline what generally a scout does on a map.

• spots enemy blob and trails it.
• orders supply upgrades at camps seconds before a blob arrives to drain it.
• maintains overview of entire map, coordinating with map commanders and acting like a traffic cop of sorts (great scouts will monitor all four maps and coordinate with multiple commanders)
• network amongst all guilds to ensure communication flows
• refresh and build siege
• maintain and order tower/keep/supply camp upgrades
• flip supply camps
• kill dolyaks
• escort dolyaks
• flip bloodlust ruins
• tap gates to divide up the enemy
• determine time response and blob size on map in reaction to perceived attacks
• solo run supply to siege to deteriorate walls/gates on enemy towers/keeps and use up their supply.
• contest waypoints at key times
• early response for defense of towers/keeps

There’s more, but that’s just off the top of my head atm….. There’s a difference between a sentry and a scout, although sentries do scout from a stationary spot and I believe are the most dedicated of players on the map.

How often do you scout Ross, i’m curious. (Its not a slam, i am curious).

That goes back to just after launch. There was a massive issue with bots that just walked the dolys and gained karma/xp via a program. They had to remove it to prevent the exploit.

Lol it doesn’t though. I don’t have either and I do just fine

It’s good to talk all this out and troubleshoot. It gives an indication, at least, at how difficult it is to implement this … as much as they want to. Maybe we will stumble on a solution.

The wxp liquid pay it forward thing is a cute idea, but what’s to stop players from just giving it to their friends and vice versa? Exploiting it that way?

I actually thought about a sign up board at spawn, where if you scout/sentry you add your name to it in the appropriate category (kind of like a time/work punch in clock). The game can monitor player activity and if you flip a tower you’re auto removed from the board until you go back to spawn and re-sign up. Flipping supply camps/dolys wouldn’t count, just towers/keeps/sm. Every hour you are awarded 1% of your server’s map wxp.

However I can see this being abused by afk players … and can’t really see a way to thwart that.

Only issue with the xp share is that it would be hard for smaller/solo guilds (most scouts I know are independent types so the role appeals to them, and subsequently a good number of them are in solo/small guilds).. They’d get zero reward with this system. Yep they could join a bigger guild, but not everyone wants that/have reasons why they don’t care to. If a scouting/defensive/sentry reward is implemented, it should be able to service all play styles y’know?

This kind of outside the box thinking is fabulous though. It could lead to an epiphany

I used to run runes of vampirism on my Mesmer because I adored my ele’s mist death port. Works basically the same way, so anyone can have it.

Ninestrings.2815:

As much as it’s seems logical to rewards scouts, you will never come up with a system that will account an actual scouting function.

Any system like that will always be susceptible for abuse.

I can already ensure you that standing in a tower will never be rewarding compared to fighting . Perhaps anet will come up with a cool scouting mode , but then again who will account for actual scouting ?

I don’t actually WvW for the rewards much anyhow, but I do know countless dedicated people who get next to nothing and do what my server calls the “dirty jobs.” I prefer the REP acronym another teammate came up with: Ruin Enemy Plans — which is the definition of what I value in WvW Its what I find fun. I like playing chess. And most of my scouting is mobile and would be near impossible to calculate reward.

But for those who selflessly sentry towers for hours on end, Devon we already get an XP reward pop up when a tower or keep is successfully defended … Even adding wxp to those events would be a step in the right direction. Do 10 of them in a row, and you get a chest pop up like a wxp rank up?

Vizunah hogs all the blankets, but I admit I melt a little when I hear “mon chou” whispered as I’m being staked.

Chicho Gosho.6507:

So there are PS trolls also. I don’t think you’ll be persistent as SFR’s ones though but don’t give up.
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Always check posting history.

Myrmi: you should email/whisper our guys to try to set that up. I know there’s a good number out there that would prefer those kind of fights.

I trebbed a keep for seven hours straight once. True story.

I kept Bay walls down in a lopsided match and enjoyed watching the enemy teams flip and reflip it. Meanwhile we were quietly upgrading the rest of the map while Bay kept the enemy servers occupied.

And that was when trebbing gave zero xp.

:)

But yes, they need to do some kind of rewards revamp for those who stick around and defend. I do know its on Devon’s radar as something to fix.

Piken doesn’t cry “double team” … we welcome the extra lootbags/fights.

We watched SFR claim that in the first match of the league when it wasn’t happening. It made them look a bit silly.

Last letter of first word and it together causes the filter to go nuts.

Advice for this week: don’t feed the trolls. The latest fashion this season is skinny trolls so feeding them just makes them fat. You all know a troll when you see them. Just ignore them and focus on the match.

RS is the kingmaker this week. Should be an interesting match. Good luck everyone!

Naw I like the 12 hour window. It means you’re not running back to reset the buff and that would remind me too much of siege refreshing.

I like Terra’s suggestion. It’s simpler. And often these structures on our map have zero buffs (for days sometimes), so even if it is 10%, at least it’s something. And the system auto-releases the keep/SM once the buff expires.

Someone needs to find Empyre and give him a great big hug. Sounds like he could use one.

Oh Mags, did you break the map?

Too many minions.

/nod

Naw a buff is a buff, even if it is +5 supply, it’s better than nothing. Guilds invest points in those buffs and overriding because you have one more would cause epic fights. My idea was mostly for guild crews who have gone to bed, or are gone for the week as there is currently no way to add buffs unless that guild unclaims it or the keep flips. I’d even be happy if multiple guilds could add their buffs to one structure and let whoever claimed it, keep it as long as they want. I don’t really care who claims it, as long as buffs can be put up.

I also think it should just apply to keeps and SM. I know guilds that claim towers and take ownership by building up siege and defending as a source of guild pride. The siege/ownership/defense is infinitely more useful in those towers I think.

Legendary Hardmode.3856:

I´am going to kick some SFR for Piken next match up.

Lol oh don’t start. We will never hear the end of it in the match thread, and it hasn’t even started yet.

Naughty you. :p

Oh but Viz is an anomaly in EU. If they want to put a WP in your keep, they will (no word of a lie) have 20 players escorting that dolyak, and another 20 in each of the nearest camps, until the WP is done. And these guys won’t wander off and do something else. Incredibly disciplined. And if you try to stop the dolly or retake the camp, that’s when the open-field stuff comes into play. Viz does play the ppt meta.

And it would be more “zut alors!” instead of “Oi!”

They should just implement a code that if a claimed keep has no buffs, another can come in and override it. This would help with players sleeping when their guild buffs expire, or troll claims. Even one buff is better than none.

Deli.1302:

Well, if Troma decides on an all call for that matchup then BG will be facing a Waha-like zerg on all 4 maps 24/7.

Lol that’s true

Xsorus.2507:

Omnitek.3876:

NA t1 servers have 2 times the coverage as EU. WvW is about coverage, not skill.

This, BG would crap on every single Euro Server..

Why EU can’t understand that they’re not more skillful then NA servers (having played on EU servers there is no skill difference between the two leagues) and that Coverage decides pretty much everything in terms of WvW.

I’ve played both too, extensively. And there most certainly is a difference. Open field, EU would win. Hands down. This is mostly due to the fact that NA considers ppt, whereas EU doesn’t really focus on that. It translates in game play (not saying one is better than the other, just different priorities).

Via has national unity and gains momentum from that, plus a singular voice towards an overall cohesive plan. Think playing with family members vs playing with coworkers. They have nowhere near the 24/7 coverage that Blackgate does, even if they are the most 24/7 server in EU, but Blackgate (at least the one I remember fighting) was a bunch of voices in a whole. Strategy/tactics wise that gives Viz an advantage, but BGs off-hour numbers would prevail.

Swarley.7423:

Contiguous.1345:

Swarley – this is his first-and-only post. Either a second (troll) account or a complete beginner.

I think you stand under me if you don’t understand me

P.S.: If you want to campare – write me ingame for a 1vs1 – saob.

If I ever get on, I’ll duel you!

Whisper me in game.

Based on the weekend result, I’d say your prognostications were reasonably calculated. But have you looked at the MOS lately? Baruch is pushing SFR atm, and looks like Piken has secured the win for this week, whereas before when you made these claims JS had been leading by 25K+.

This week was key in mathematical eligibility for 2nd, 3rd and 4th place spots.

If Baruch keeps pushing SFR, it’s possible there will be a three-way tie for third place between SFR/BB and JS. Which is cool, because Devon has said in the event of a tie, all servers get the same reward.

Harvesting tool update. It’s account bound now, so buying one is more useful, because they can now be used on all toons.

I think the issue is the change in conversion rates. At launch of paid transfers it was 1g per 200 gems (?) .. it’s now up to 3g per, and it keeps rising.

If you can afford the $20, it’s easy to buy the gems to transfer and the conversion rate will have no bearing really. But it certainly would limit server hopping if you had to drop $20 each time. Which may not be a bad thing. At least there’s an option to farm for the gold for gems and it’s not locked into spending actual money. The inflation rate keeps rising though, and I doubt that will ever go down. It gives a disadvantage to a server with a high pve/low wvw population.

Qaelyn.7612:

Centaur runes would help except I’d have to spam my heal ability every 15 seconds, and it gets old fast. The thief is far more mobile in every way.

Jayne, youtube videos don’t show gear, traits, etc. But I’ll look around and maybe ask on the warrior forum.

Look at the description under each video. A lot of them have links to inthemists builds.

Lots of vids on youtube about those warriors .. just search Full Regen Warrior I think to find it …

lol do it. I have screamed at my monitor more than once over that. haha

There’s a specific warrior build that will give you endless health regen — someone can beat on you for quite a while and you’ll take little damage (signets I think). However, you won’t do much damage either, from what I’ve been told.

Only class that drives me nuts is the turbo-speed-running away warrior after his health gets to 5%.

That’s my next project toon to create and learn.

XII.9401:

Jayne.9251:

Really? I roam/duel most of my time in WvW, I don’t have either leech or fortitude, and it’s never seemed to stop me staking/downing (if duel) another player that does have it.

I also run into my friend’s 9 year old son who plays a toon with all the guard killer+defense against guards buffs, food, consumables and it’s never seemed to stop me staking/downing him..

See what I did there?

You won’t win if you run into a player of similar “skill” with those buffs.

I also suggest playing a non-handicap class that abuses broken stealth mechanics and unlimited get out of jail cards to compensates for one’s failings e.g.mesmer. Try playing a warrior after the incoming nerf (without attempting to run away when you start losing). I’m sure you will just kick as much kitten ..

In this game it’s the class/build that makes you..not the skill. Adding stats in wvw and lack of boon duration nerf etc etc in wvw makes the imbalances worse.

Well I guess you’re saying leaders of various well known GvG guilds aren’t skilled. Ok

There have been about four so far ….

Anyhow, I probably deserve some of the pushback/skepticism because it’s out of character for me to toot my own horn. I guess when I read the OP, saw yet another complaint about something I’ve personally never had issue with, I said something.

Duelling for me isn’t an ego thing (though posts in this thread may indicate otherwise), it’s more about learning and testing out builds/class so that I know the class very well. I also think it benefits my opponent because it’s a learning process for them too. I’ve faceplanted plenty of times, believe me. I’m not some uber player.

But I can tell you, from my experience, and facing some very worthy opponents, that leech/fortitude has had very little effect on the outcome .. at least for me. It could be the way I play.

If you are facing Piken, I encourage you to whisper me, stack up as much as you want, and come duel. Even if you down me, I’ll still enjoy it. It’s part of the process. But don’t be surprised if I down you, stacks and all.

P.S. I thought warriors were the ultimate class in WvW? Which is why everyone was rolling one? (My class has been nerfed so many times, I often spit out pieces of foam). I’ve yet to die to one in a duel. Guards neither. Thieves used to give me a lot of trouble, until I actually rolled one so I could better understand their mechanics. And they abuse stealth far more than a mesmer. Any time I’m faced with a class that keeps pushing me down and stealing my lunch money, I tend to take the time to learn that class well so I can eat once in a while

Za Playing Nurse.6329:

Sniff. sniff :‘( Jade sea, give me my lootbags T^T dont be soo stinky, face us in fight and i’ll share my lootbags with u guys too! (if u mange to kill me ofc xD)
I am very poor and cannot survive without my daily lootbags. if u guys keep running from us, how am i going to survive the next day? XD

Omg! I just read your sig line! Does this mean Nirvii came over too?! I’d be so happy

bla.2971:

Yes, it is a game. However, in terms of “game etiquette” if there is such a thing anymore, it was shady and pathetic Jade Sea would make a coordinated attack effort(via TS) to try and take a keep with no supply or siege for 4-5 hours with Kodash being their meat shield and fail to take it. Then, they backstab Kodash and farm them, but Kodash got what they deserved. Now, Jade Sea is whining because they’re going to lose this week. Did you really think Piken wouldn’t catch up during the week?

Piken tends to ignore any alleged double teaming and welcomes the extra loot bags,

It just looks silly to say it happens, when often it’s just WvW strategy/normal gameplay. Even if it did happen, it’s a massive compliment, because it implies Piken is the tougher target. Saying it was done in TS implies you were on their TS to hear it, and I know our guys would never do anything like that.

SFR cried 2v1 in first week of the league when there was no such thing happening. It made them look silly. I’d hate to have people see us the same way.

Hrm, I just looked at your posting history … You’re on SFR?

lazorexplosion.9602:

I held back on the being uncharitable enough to accuse you of posturing for fake kitten, but I see I shouldn’t have.

Lol come duel me stack up as much as you like. Doesn’t bother me.

I tend not to boast about my abilities because I’ve face planted plenty of times, but I can tell you from having friendly duels with countless players who have both those stacks, it really hasn’t presented any insurmountable advantages.

Duel more, you’ll learn to adapt.

Or just skilled enough that the buffs are inconsequential